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June 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, but you know that.
It's the EIB network, and you know that too.
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Apparently, the refuge, the wildlife refuge, is open.
It's...
There's been a lot of exaggeration about it being shut down.
Did some more checking here during the top of the hour break, and apparently the refuge is open, and there's a lot of misinformation about it's been shut down and what's going on in there.
Now, this is the BP slush fund is now official from the AP.
IRS says it wants its share of BP payments received by oil spill victims.
Told you this is going to happen.
It's a tragedy out there.
These people have been put out of work for a host of reasons, including by President Obama, not just the BP spill.
He shut down drilling throughout the Gulf.
So now you got the $20 billion slush fund that BP was shaken down for.
That money, you have to apply for it through Ken Feinberg if you've been damaged as a result, but the IRS has made it official.
You will pay under current law.
British petroleum payments for lost wages are taxable, just like the lost wages would have been taxable.
The IRS says that payments for physical injuries or property loss are generally tax-free.
So what's going to happen here, the IRS planning to hold forums in seven cities in the Gulf region on July 17th to help oil spill victims with tax troubles or questions.
So basically, they're going to come down there and have a little seminar and they're going to explain to you how you are going to pay taxes on whatever you get, whatever your share is, from the BP $20 billion slush fund.
Why didn't Obama take care of this in the shakedown terms?
Are you kidding?
Obama wants the money.
Obama is looking for the little guy.
He wants the money.
I'm forced to comment on something here because you know what?
It reminds me a little bit of this, how we've, apparently, some people have exaggerated.
I don't know who, but some people have exaggerated this notion that the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge has been shut down.
I got my Apple iPhone 4 and I activated and I've been using it.
And I go to all the iPhone and Apple blogs because I'm an Apple evangel.
I mean, they ought to be paying me.
I mean, they won't, but they ought to be paying me.
Now, there is a story circulating about the new iPhone 4.
What's new about the iPhone 4, one of the things new is the case on all four edges is stainless steel.
Glass in the front, glass in the back, stainless steel edges.
And those edges are the antenna for GPS, for Wi-Fi, for Bluetooth, for 3G, for Edge, pretty much everything you have to have.
Now, I've been looking at these blogs, and a lot of people are claiming that when they hold their iPhone in their left hand, and if their hand covers the lower left-hand corner of the phone, their signal drops.
They lose all of their cellular signal.
Well, I've been trying to duplicate that, and I can't duplicate it.
I am not losing one bar.
I don't lose signal strength at all when I pick up the phone and hold it.
But these Apple blogs, I mean, they're making it sound like it's happening to everybody.
And Apple has responded.
They said, well, don't hold the phone that way.
I really did.
They said, don't hold the phone though.
Well, I wish I had the phone in front of me.
I got it charging over there.
But there's no other way to hold it.
If you hold the phone in your left hand, there's really no way to avoid having the lower left-hand corner intersect the thumb ball of your hand area.
To hold the phone the other way.
Now, you can buy a rubber edge.
They've sold out of these two.
You can buy a rubber edge to put around the phone, and there are all these cool little colors.
I wouldn't dare.
I wouldn't dare put some candy toy rubber band on this phone to cover up the stainless steel.
So I don't know.
I've seen these reports.
Some people are dropping calls and dropping signal, but it's not happening to me.
And I don't mean to be bragging about it.
I'm just telling you, I've tried to duplicate the problem.
I've walked inside the house.
I've walked outside the house.
I've aimed it in different directions.
And I can't, just by picking up the phone, I do not lose strength.
The bars stay the same.
I mean, there's the normal fluctuation.
I mean, you're going to lose a bar here depending on what area you go to.
If you're driving, you lose a bar.
You pick one up now and then.
But these people are saying you lose it entirely.
And I haven't.
Now, so Apple Solutions don't hold the phone that way.
And there are iPhone ads showing people holding phones the wrong way.
Oh, the camera.
What?
Yeah.
I forgot to turn the camera on.
Sorry about that, folks.
It was pure accident.
Look, you wouldn't believe the distractions going on here today.
It's amazing this show is even taking place.
You want to know what's happened here in the first 15 minutes of this program?
Lost internet, lost email.
Still don't have email.
I have not been able.
We got internet back, but we don't have email back.
You don't have internet back in there?
I'm the only one that's got internet?
Okay, because I've got the cable modem backup.
We're on AT ⁇ T fiber optics.
There's a problem down in Miami.
We know what the problem is.
But every time I've lost the primary, we go to cable as a backup, and everything's back, email and internet.
I don't have email, any email.
I don't understand it.
I've had a computer people trying to explain to me, and I have not gotten a satisfactory explanation because every time we've lost a line in the past, the backup line provides everything else.
Now I'm getting this gobbledy-gook about IP addresses and DNS addresses and gizmodos about why the email can't be seen by our backup cable modem.
So this has me scratching my front for the last two and a half hours.
You know, when I don't get an upfront, I've asked a question four times, a yes or no question, four times.
And it took me four times while the program's going on here, folks, and I want the computer.
It's yes or no.
And so that's going on.
And Dawn, she's in there.
She transcribes your phone calls in case you're on a bad cell signal or when I can't understand you.
Her computer monitor blew up.
There's an explosion in there at the same time.
The audio level that I hear in my cochlear implant has died 25 times in the middle of this program.
And I asked the computer guy, are we being hacked here?
Oh, no, no, there's no way.
What is a lot of coincidences going on here?
My audio level's shot.
A computer monitor blows up.
We lose the internet.
The air conditioning in the bathroom isn't working, by the way.
I was just in there, bro.
I won't even burden you with that, but that's not working.
I may as well unload on everything here.
I'll bet you when I get out and get in my car, something's happened there and my key won't start it.
And I'll say, well, that's because the DNS server doesn't see the cable backup modem.
Well, that's never happened before.
Why is it happening now?
In the meantime, I'm having to look up whether or not the Mexicans have taken over a wildlife refuge in the state of Arizona all while this show is going on here to try to be as accurate as I can.
And I have to put up with people want to hear.
Grab audio soundbite number 15.
Listen to this.
Chris Matthews will not give it up.
I got to salute Rush.
I've never seen a guy on a radio.
He doesn't do television.
He has one medium of expression, the voice.
He doesn't put on guests.
He has a good golf game, I figure.
He's kept up his tan.
He's got a good lifestyle.
Congratulations on your marriage.
He enjoys his life.
And with like his left hand, he runs the entire Republican Party.
Congratulations until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bo.
Congratulations on ruling an entire political party of ditto heads.
So, I mean, he's for 45 days.
He has been begging any Republican to come on and denounce me as the leader, and none of them will.
45 days.
So finally he said that.
But that came, Grab Soundbite 14.
That came after this on his show last week.
It's been 44 days since we first issued that challenge out on a limbaugh.
Rush is loving it.
Rush can't believe it, how Rush can cow an entire party.
That includes Rush Limbaugh.
It's been 44 days since I challenged any Republican to come on and disagree with Rush Limbaugh and no takers.
Why are Republicans so afraid of disagreeing with El Rushbo?
It's been 44 days since we invited Republican office owners to come on our show and say that Rush Limbaugh is not the leader to simply disagree with Rush Boe.
Rush went out there and took the side of BP more on El Rushboat.
He is so proud of himself, took the side of the Republican leadership against Rush Limbaugh, and after a few hours of withering attack from Rush and his people, he buckled and apologized to Rush Limbaugh, taking the side of his party leadership against Rushbo, the Rush-Barton shakedown line.
We thought Republicans had their chance to take their stand with their leaders and say, Rush, oh, Rush, we hate to say this, but you're wrong.
I asked U.S. Congressman Scales from Louisiana if he agreed with Rush.
Rush Limbaugh is really the Republican Party today.
That sort of tribalist right-wing view you get from Rush Limbaugh.
I got to salute Rush until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bo.
Just one of them to say that he or she disagrees with Rush.
It was the better part of Vower to tell Rush that he was sorry for what he'd done.
When Rush went so far as to back BP, we had a congressman from Louisiana on this week.
Not even he would side with his party's leadership and take on Rush out onto a limbaugh.
While saying Rush didn't speak for him, that he spoke for himself, he still would not complete the thought and say, darn it, Rush is wrong, couldn't do it.
Let me finish tonight with our lively interchange with Rush Limbaugh.
That's a montage of this whole week.
It was half the show.
We did not repeat any of it.
We did not.
None of those segments were repeats.
Every one of those things was actually said.
And here comes the next bite, what you previously heard, the begrudging respect.
And it's almost, it's almost like Matthews is in awe, but he's not getting a tingle up his leg about me.
That's still reserved for Obama.
I got to salute Rush.
Never seen a guy on a radio.
He doesn't do television.
He has one medium of expression, the voice.
He doesn't put on guests.
He has a good golf game, I figure.
He's kept up his tan.
He's got a good lifestyle.
Congratulations on your marriage.
He enjoys his life.
And with his left hand, he runs the entire Republican Party.
Congratulations until somebody dethrones you, Rush Bo.
Congratulations on ruling an entire political party of ditto heads.
So I'm out there doing all this stuff, and this is an afterthought.
With my left hand, I'm running the entire Republican Party.
Chris, thank you very much.
I know you sincerely mean that, and I know exactly what you mean when you say it, and I appreciate it.
I just wonder how he would compare my abilities to those of the teleprompter Messiah.
One more.
This is Greta Van Sustran last night on the record on the Fox News channel.
And this, she's reviewing my comments about Obama and Dmitry Medvedev going out for a burger.
This isn't something you hear every day.
Rush Limbaugh has got President Obama's back.
Well, at least for that hamburger lunch with the Russian president.
I've often thought, I've even commented on it on this program.
Why do you think this guy, when he, I think half the reason he leaves the White House to go get a burger because his wife is making him eat watercress and bamboo in there?
He wants to get out and have some real food, have some fries, some onion rings, some burgers.
Look at what this guy leaves the White House and look at what he eats.
I mean, it's real food.
Who knows what they're feeding the poor guy in the White House?
Bamboo.
Well, that doesn't sound very appealing, does it?
Especially because there's a shortage of it, all those bamboo steamers out there.
The pandas are even having trouble with finding bamboo.
Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday.
It's getting tougher and tougher and tougher to understand Barney Frank.
And you will hear what I mean in mere moments.
He was on CNBC's power lunch.
The co-host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.
She said to Barney Frank, Will this bill that you and Dodd just worked up here, will this bill prevent a future crisis?
It will make it very, very unlikely that we will have the same kind of crisis.
There may be something new and different, but you could not have an AIG situation, for example.
One of the most important things we did is to change the whole set of rules that led to bad loans.
Bad loans were at the heart of this.
We have very specific restrictions on bad subprime loans.
We don't allow them.
There will be no more AIGs being kept alive.
Any institution that gets to the point where it can't pay its debts and the government has to step in will die.
And we will then have to deal with the consequences, but with funds that are raised not from taxpayers, but from assessments on financial institutions.
But they don't have any money by definition.
We're going to bail out, that's another lying, sneaking portion of this bill.
We're going to bail out financial institutions because they're going to put the money in the tank.
Well, where do they get their money?
They don't print it.
It's all consumer money, invested, whatever.
But the goal of this guy, this was a problem he created.
And now he's blaming it on AIG.
And he's pretending he fixed the crisis that he created.
It is outrageous.
He says here, there may be something new and different, but it could not happen.
AIG situation, for example, one of the most important things that we did is to change the host of the rules.
The letter of bad loans.
The bad loans with the horn of it.
Yeah, the bad loans are the heart of it.
And you demanded the bad loans be made.
One time.
I know some of you are driven crazy by this.
I'm not.
I'm host.
I like it.
We're going to play it.
And I actually think half of the people claiming they don't like it actually do like it.
Just being contrarian, trying to control the program.
Barney Frank, no doubt now, the banking queen.
Oh, yeah, you remember this, long timers.
Original Barney Frank update theme.
Millie Small and My Boy Lollipop.
One of the most important things that we did was this.
There will be no more subprime loans.
But there will be lots of this.
Oh, all the way back to my, well, what is it?
Not childhood.
What do you, what's the next stage after childhood?
Incandescence, not incandescence.
Adolescents.
No, no, not pupes.
Adolescents.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Program.
And we'll be right back.
This is too funny.
The course is for 30 people.
The students are going to have to write research papers.
But I wonder what the final exam is going to be.
What I'm talking about here is, folks, I'm watching this on Mess NBC.
Some guy is a college professor going to start teaching a course on the Gulf oil spill.
I don't know which, oh, University of Minnesota.
This Professor Robert Gilmore.
That's who he is.
Professor Robert Gilmore, University of Minnesota to offer a course on Gulf oil disaster.
He's going to divide this up into three parts.
The first course, first part of the course, is going to be the history of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the history of spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
The second phase of the course is going to focus on the spill itself and environmentalism.
And the third phase of the course is: what do we do now?
What do we do now?
What does it cost to go to the University of Minnesota?
So there you have it.
A course on the Professor Robert Gilmore.
He's probably a good guy.
I don't know.
He's going to discourse here on the spill.
Where do we go now?
What do we do now?
Research papers will be written by the 30 students taking the course.
What will the final exam be?
And will there be field trips?
Folks, there's a story here speaking of field trips.
California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over 18 months.
Governor Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs.
Republican legislators have called for the cash to be returned.
What they have to promise not to do this again.
Is that the deal?
California welfare recipients using state-issued debit cards withdrew more than $1.8 million in taxpayer money on casino floors between October 2009 and last month.
Governor Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring welfare recipients to promise that they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs of their families.
Well, what's that?
What are the, if you're a welfare recipient in California, what are the basic subsistence needs for you and your family?
Well, I know.
Nuggets, mac and cheese with butter, scratch-off lottery tickets, black jack, video poker.
Now, since, folks, do you take this personally?
I mean, can you imagine the way to understand this is if you had a deadbeat member of your family and you gave them a debit card of whatever, 500 bucks a month, and you found them at the Mohegan Sun or you found them at the Wynn Casino or the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
And then it's your money that you've earned.
And they're out there in the casinos.
You know what happens in the casinos?
They lose it all.
And then you make them promise that they won't do it again.
Now, the dirty little secret is that these debit cards, the cash benefits can be accessed anywhere.
It's hilarious to pretend that restricting them at casinos will stop welfare recipients from spending taxpayer monies at caspi because you can go to an ATM and get the cash and go to the casino.
It's going to be a little harder work.
You're going to be a little bit more industrious as a welfare recipient, but you can still end up with the cash in the casino.
They're only saying you can't go to the casino, ATM, but you can still go to the casino.
Anybody who has ever been to a casino or a racetrack, you ever been to a casino or a racetrack?
You've been to OTB in New York, Snerdley.
You know that without a doubt, many of the denizens of such places are using welfare benefits to gamble, looking for the big payday, the big payoff.
And for guys like Schwarzenegger to pretend to be shocked at this, he is laughable.
$1.8 billion from casino ATMs.
Even without easy access to ATM cash, welfare recipients are going to use their benefits to gamble.
They have to have something to do to while away their idle hours.
And casinos are air-conditioned.
And if you sit at the right place, you get free drink, you know, while you're playing 21 or blackjack.
It's got everything you need.
So here's Schwarzenegger.
You better promise that you will not go into the casino with the money.
Now, Heritage Foundation, by the way, speaking of this, Heritage Foundation is out with a new report on the state of welfare, Obama's welfare state, actually, which may be how you feel after you hear and read the details.
The most jarring of all discoveries is that welfare spending in Obama's 2011 budget next year, Get Ready, is up 42% from where it was in 2008.
Up 42% in three years if Obama gets its way.
And the Democrats in Congress, we're not going to do a budget.
We're going to wait for this deficit commission to do it.
We're not going to do a budget.
They're going to abrogate their responsibility.
Now, this for those of you in Rio Linda, let me give you another way to look at this.
That's a plus 14% increase in welfare spending three years in a row per year.
A 14% increase every year.
Now, this takes into consideration both the federal and state welfare spending, the biggest piece being from the feds, of course.
Already, you see New Jersey and New York trying to reduce their welfare budgets because they don't have any money, but you don't hear anything from the Obama White House that would suggest we cut our welfare program spending.
The whole report is available, served up on the Heritage Foundation's website.
They released it just yesterday afternoon.
Now, the Heritage Foundation is constantly researching about a dozen or more heavy topics at a time.
This latest report on welfare is an example of how thorough they all are.
And they don't just report on the facts, they also propose solutions, which is why they had some 600 briefings with staffers on Capital Hill last year alone.
And you, as a member of the Heritage Foundation, incidentally get all this info, get access to it if you are a member.
And you do that online at askheritage.org.
It's as simple as logging on and signing up.
And it is a mere $25 a year to make yourself a member of the Heritage Foundation.
You can give more than that if you want, but the minimum is 25 smackers.
AskHeritage.org.
This is Jennifer in Las Vegas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It is an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
And congratulations on your marriage with Catherine.
Thank you.
I'm a little bit nervous.
You don't sound it.
Oh, I don't?
No.
Oh, okay.
Well, I just wanted to.
In fact, you're projecting very well.
You're projecting with confidence, verve, vigor, and assuredness.
Oh, well, thank you very much.
You bet.
Okay, I have been a longtime listener right from the get-go.
Though I've missed here and there because of work and whatever.
But my husband and I are a big supporter of Arizona.
And as you know, we live here in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.
Right.
And last May we went to Arizona for a weekend trip.
This weekend we're going to Arizona for my birthday.
And next September, we're going down to Sierra Vista for 10 days in support of Arizona.
Boy, this sounds like economic stimulus to me.
Yeah, we're going to spend our vacation dollars down there.
They're going to need it to fight the regime.
So, but, oh, could I make a quick comment about the hurricane?
Oh, by the way, which one, there isn't one yet.
Oh, you know, go ahead, but you reminded me something phenomenal about that Hurricane Henri in 1979.
I forgot to mention, but go ahead.
Well, I don't think that there's going to be hurricanes this year because of global warming.
Because of global warming.
Well, there's a there's a do you know do you know the name Joe Bastardi at uh at AccuWeather?
Uh no, I don't.
Well, Joe's a good guy, and he's uh he's a friend of our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer.
And uh, and Joe has has been ramping up his hurricane predictions.
He says it's going to be a major, major year.
And Joe tries to make the case that we here in Florida are going to get creamed.
I mean, I mean, we're going to get pummeled, according to Joe Bastardi at AccuWeather.
And he's a good guy.
Don't misunderstand.
But I want to get in the prediction game too, because my prediction probably is good as anybody else's.
And before I get my hurricane prediction for this season, Hurricane Henry, 1979, the same year as the ICSOC 1 oil spill, a huge one, dwarfs this one in Mexico.
Hurricane Henry never, ever struck land.
It never went ashore.
That's almost unheard of.
Hurricane Henry, 1979, forms in the Gulf and died there.
And I mention this because there's some thinking with all the oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, or however much it is, that the oil might in fact retard hurricane formation in the Gulf of Mexico, because there were only five hurricanes in 1979.
Hurricane Henry did form, but it never struck land.
And that's, I don't know if it's coincidence or if there's some scientific relevance to it.
My hurricane prediction is that there will be between zero and 40 storms before the season ends.
My next prediction is that between zero and 40 of them will become tropical cyclones.
Between zero and 40 of them will become major category three or above storms.
And between zero and 40 of these will strike somewhere on the United States coast, either the East Coast, the Gulf Coast, or the, well, that would cover it.
Between zero and 40.
And there's also between zero and 40 will not strike the U.S. coastline.
And there you have it.
And I live in Florida.
So that makes me a hurricane expert.
Ha, Harry U. Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy.
We are back.
By the way, about Hurricane Henry, ladies and gentlemen, the big thing about Hurricane Henry, 1979, the year of the ICSTOC oil spill, the Gulf Coast had no hurricanes all year.
Zip Zero Nada.
Now, could be a coincidence, but wouldn't it be ironic if the BP spill saves the Gulf Coast from their annual hurricane devastation?
But, I mean, there's still devastation from the oil spill.
The real losers there are the media, who are just sitting around, you know, they're going back and forth.
They're just, they're salivated.
They see that potential hurricane down there off the Yucatan, and they're just, it's like Al Gore in a massage parlor.
Trying to, oh, they just want that thing to form.
But then they don't.
Peggy West, I'll hear the audio again.
Peggy West, Milwaukee County Supervisors Meeting, big advocate of the Milwaukee boycott of Arizona.
If this was Texas, which is the state that is directly on the border, with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would say I would have to look twice at this.
But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.
That's Peggy West in Milwaukee claiming Arizona is a state that's a ways removed from the border.
John Kyle, Arizona senator, has confirmed, in fact, that Arizona is on the border with Mexico.
Kyle sent Peggy West a letter in which he says, you'll be interested to learn that Arizona does indeed share a border with Mexico.
I've enclosed a map for your convenience.
So it has been confirmed.
We're the first to announce it.
Senator Kyle has confirmed for Peggy West that Arizona does, in fact, border Mexico.
Jerry, in Rome, New York, you're next, Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's Gary in Rome, New York.
Yeah, Gary, thanks very much.
Listen, first of all, it's an honor and a pleasure to finally be able to say hello to you.
Thank you very much, Zeke.
I've been listening to you since 1989.
Appreciate that.
I told your screener, I apologize for maybe changing the scene of what's going on with your conversation today, but open line, right?
Right.
And I tried to get a hold of you many times over the years, but more specifically over your 20th anniversary.
And I've always wanted to tell you that and your listeners that I've been listening to you for since 1989, and I appreciate it every moment.
And more specifically, the first time that I was listening to you, I was changing the radio dial to try and actually find someone else, but I found you, and you were in the middle of a heartfelt apology to your listening audience.
What did I do?
I got five seconds.
What did I do?
You were listening.
You were telling your audience you apologize heartfeltly for, I don't know if you hung up on him or if you went off on him, but you didn't give him the courtesy that you felt he deserved.
Oh, that was a caller abortion.
No, I remember that specifically.
It was a caller abortion.
That's what it was.
The Associated Press says that Vice President Bite Me is heading to the Gulf Coast.
Senior Obama regime officials tells the AP that Vice President Bite Me traveled to the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to review the efforts to combat the massive oil spill.
Now, this actually makes sense that Vice President Bite Me would go though down there because he is the man with all the plugs.
And Obama said, plugged them hoe.
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